Digital News

How platform ecosystems change news supply and news exposure

Overview

Our lab focuses on how digital platform ecosystems (e.g., apps, social media, algorithms) and big tech companies change news. This includes cross-platform journalism, news use on different digital platforms, and effects on how citizens stay informed.

Featured publications

Epistemologies of digital news production: power and technological adaptation in knowledge production

Digital Journalism

In this Special Issue, we rethink epistemological changes in journalism through the lens of power.

Feb 25, 2025

Biased social media debates about terrorism? a content analysis of journalistic coverage of and audience reactions to terrorist attacks on YouTube

Social Media + Society

News about and audience reactions to terrorism are subject to bias.

Oct 24, 2024

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Featured projects

Understanding the diversity of digital news flows

Weave Program

To understand how digital platforms and big tech change news, we study the diversity of news across platforms.

Forschungsmonitor

Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia

The Forschungsmonitor discusses research on current societal challenges.